Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia . west rim of thebowl, and so close to the old hostelry that a wingfrom the new house joins it to that famous oldinstitution. The waters of the White Sulphur Springs, weare told, were known to the Indians before thewhite men took possession of this part of the world,and were used by them to effect cures of rheumatictroubles, too. The last of the savages to dwell inthe region were the Shawnees, who b
Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia . west rim of thebowl, and so close to the old hostelry that a wingfrom the new house joins it to that famous oldinstitution. The waters of the White Sulphur Springs, weare told, were known to the Indians before thewhite men took possession of this part of the world,and were used by them to effect cures of rheumatictroubles, too. The last of the savages to dwell inthe region were the Shawnees, who bitterly foughtevery inch of their beloved valley, and were notuntil 1774, after the battle of Point Pleasant, finallydispossessed and driven west of the Ohio river. The property on which the spring is situatedwas originally patented to a Nathan Carpenter, whomet a sad death at the hands of the Indians. Car-penters wife, Kate, hid from her husbands slayersin the mountain which has since that time beenknown as Kates mountain. From 1779 to 1784tents were scattered around the springs, in whichsettlers lived while taking the cure; and then logcabins began to be built, so that in 1786 there was228. PARADISE ROW, THE BACHELORS QUARTERS
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